Oh yes, I am using Eclipse Galileo.

Let me know if you need any other information that I may have left out.


Shea.
> Hi folks,
>
> I am encountering a strange problem trying to use ant-1.8.0rc1 in
> Eclipse. My build works fine from the command-line, but the Eclipse
> Ant Editor and Ant View is not interpreting it correctly, so I can't
> run my ant builds from Eclipse (it thinks the file is not valid, so it
> can't display the ant targets for me to click on).
>
> I'm not sure if this is an Ant bug or an Eclipse bug, but since
> ant-1.7.1 is working just fine for me in Eclipse, I will post to this
> mailing list first =).
>
> Here is my build.xml file:
>
> <project name="project" basedir="."
> xmlns:ivy="antlib:org.apache.ivy.ant" default="cruisecontrol">
>    <!-- Load local properties -->
>   <property file="${basedir}/local.properties"/>
>    <!-- Load build properties -->
>   <property file="${basedir}/build.properties"/>
>    <!-- Import common build infrastructure -->
>   <import file="${common.build.xml}"/>
> </project>
>
> Essentially, all of the work of my project's build is done by the
> "common.build.xml" file, so that I can share build infrastructure
> between projects. In the local.properties file, I have specified:
>
> common.build.dir=/home/mike/work/eclipse/common-build
> .. This is done in local.properties, so that different users can
> determine where they want to put the common build project themselves.
>
> and in the build.properties file, I have this property:
>
> common.build.xml=${common.build.dir}/build.xml
> ... This way, we pick up the file, so that we can import it in the
> project-specific build.xml file.
>
> Unfortunately, the Eclipse IDE is complaining to me about the <import>
> directive. It says:
>
> Cannot find ${common.build.dir}/build.xml imported from [path to my
> project build.xml file].
>
> This looks to me like it is failing to apply the properties from the
> local.properties file when it is parsing the build.properties file;
> it's as if the local.properties variables are just not being set at all.
>
> I have tried putting the
> "common.build.dir=/home/mike/work/eclipse/common-build" in the
> build.properties file, before the "common.build.xml" property, and
> this works. If I do this, the Eclipse errors go away, and I can use my
> build in the IDE. But this is not a tenable solution, since that file
> gets committed, and everyone who uses it will have a different path
> that they need to specify.
>
> Any ideas? Like I said, I don't know if this is Eclipse's problem, or
> Ant's problem. The build works just fine when I run it from the
> command-line.
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> Mike Shea.
>
>


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